{"id":1747,"date":"2016-01-21T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:44:37","slug":"acceptance-and-rejection-paul-rogers-reflects-on-forty-years-of-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/01\/21\/acceptance-and-rejection-paul-rogers-reflects-on-forty-years-of-preaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance and Rejection: Paul Rogers reflects on forty years of preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While processing gift books this morning I came to <em>These 40 Years, The Best of Four Decades in One Pulpit<\/em>, written by long-time Middle Tennessee minister Paul Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>This brief comment (p. 13) caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Acceptance and Rejection<\/p>\n<p>Over these forty years, I have been loved by most, loathed by some, helped by most, heckled by some, acquainted both with bouquets and brickbats. \u00a0I have been compared to Billy Graham, Batsell Barrett Baxter, and Beelzebub! \u00a0I have had one person to insist she could listen to me forever and another to say she had rather hear a dog bark! \u00a0I have been encouraged and discouraged, glad and sad, up and down and all around&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While processing gift books this morning I came to These 40 Years, The Best of Four Decades in One Pulpit, written by long-time Middle Tennessee minister Paul Rogers. This brief comment (p. 13) caught my eye: Acceptance and Rejection Over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/01\/21\/acceptance-and-rejection-paul-rogers-reflects-on-forty-years-of-preaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1225,1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-preaching","category-reflection","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4fxGI-sb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}